The Kintsugi Process

The Kintsugi Process: Healing for the Soul

Derived from principles of Zen Buddhism, Wabi-Sabi is a way of looking at the world that embraces imperfection and finds beauty in imperfection. Within Wabi-Sabi, Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken objects, usually ceramics, with gold dust and lacquer. The resulting aesthetic does not seek to hide the healed fractures but to elevate and honor the fractures as a testament to the journey of the object. What might have been seen as a flaw becomes an essential part of the object’s exquisite uniqueness.

The Kintsugi Process

You may have the unconscious assumption that the broken pieces of you must be eliminated to heal, and even if you manage to heal, you will always be diminished by your traumas and woundings.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The broken pieces are within are not merely obstacles to overcome, regardless of how it may seem. These pieces are essential to your becoming.

The process begins with you choosing some aspect of you about which you have very little acceptance. (You know - those ugly and unwanted bits of you that you’ve always tried to eliminate or hide). You’ll be guided through a series of three 1-hour sessions, with invitations for activities in between. At the end of the process, you will have a new level of compassion for those parts of you that seemed like enemies to vanquish. It leaves you loving all those little forgotten bits of you!

The process is $575, and consists of 3 1-hour sessions spaced over 4 to 6 weeks with activities between. Please email for more information if this sounds intriguing to you.